Simplifying a Concept Ages | Simple | Teaching | Timeline Explain it to me like I’m five. Years ago I knew a wealthy executive that would always ask an important decision option to be explained to him like he was five. Some people thought it was a test, if you...
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Six ages for going in and coming out, for war and peace. The seventh age is entirely Shabbat and rest for life everlasting
-Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer 18.12
It is better to be King Herod’s pig than son.
-Emperor Augustus commenting on the Herod the Great’s habit of killing competition even in his own family, and only a pig is safe in that region (Macrobius, Saturnalia, 2:4:11)
Mark Calls Jesus Yahweh More than John Does
Correcting a Misconception Christology | Jesus | John | Mark Mark Calls Jesus Yahweh More than John Does A common scholarly assertion is that the Gospel of Mark presents a "low" Christology compared to the Gospel of John, where Jesus is explicitly identified as divine...
The voice of one calling out, Clear the way for Yahweh in the wilderness; Make straight in the desert a path for our Elohim.
-Isaiah 40:3
And in saying that ‘three horns’ (Daniel 7:8) were ‘plucked up by the roots’ by this one, he indicates the three kings of Egypt, Libya, and Ethiopia, whom this one will slay in the array of war
-Hippolytus “In Danielem Commentarius”
When the Temple is rebuilt, the gates of wisdom will open, and Elijah will descend to teach the hidden Torah of the Messiah.
– Zohar, Terumah 174b
The sound of the great shofar will awaken the souls of the righteous, and they will rise from their graves to greet the Messiah.
-Zohar, Pinchas 239b
All nations surround me; three times Gog and Magog are destined to come up to Jerusalem
-Midrash Tehillim 118.12

